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Soviet submarine K-19

Index Soviet submarine K-19

K-19 was one of the first two Soviet submarines of the Project 658 class (NATO reporting name), the first generation nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 SLBM. [1]

72 relations: Acute radiation syndrome, Andreev Bay nuclear accident, Arms race, Atlantic Ocean, Ballast tank, Ballistic missile, Barents Sea, Blood transfusion, Bone marrow, Captain lieutenant, Ceremonial ship launching, Control rod, Diesel–electric transmission, Gale, Galley (kitchen), Gasket, Greenland, Harrison Ford, Herbert Gantschacher, Hiroshima, Hotel-class submarine, Hydraulic fluid, Jury rigging, K-19: The Widowmaker, Kara Sea, Keel, Keel laying, Liam Neeson, List of NATO reporting names for submarines, Medium-range ballistic missile, Mikhail Gorbachev, Murmansk, Mutiny, Naval ensign, Newfoundland (island), Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Nuclear fission product, Nuclear meltdown, Nuclear reactor, Nuclear submarine, Pravda, President of the Soviet Union, Propeller, R-13 (missile), R-21 (missile), Radiation, Radio, Roentgen (unit), ..., Roentgen equivalent man, Russian Shipyard Number 10, Scram, Sea trial, Seaman, Severodvinsk, Ship breaking, Ship commissioning, Short-range ballistic missile, Sievert, Snezhnogorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Sonar, Soviet Navy, Soviet submarine K-19, Soviet Union, Starshina, Submarine, Submarine-launched ballistic missile, United States, Vasily Aksyonov, Vladimir Romanov, VM reactor. Expand index (22 more) »

Acute radiation syndrome

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) is a collection of health effects that are present within 24 hours of exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation.

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Andreev Bay nuclear accident

The Andreev Bay nuclear accident took place at Soviet naval base 569 in February 1982.

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Arms race

An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Ballast tank

A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide stability for a vessel.

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Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver one or more warheads on a predetermined target.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (Barentshavet; Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Blood transfusion

Blood transfusion is generally the process of receiving blood or blood products into one's circulation intravenously.

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Bone marrow

Bone marrow is a semi-solid tissue which may be found within the spongy or cancellous portions of bones.

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Captain lieutenant

Captain lieutenant or captain-lieutenant is a military rank, used in a number of navies worldwide and formerly in the British Army.

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Ceremonial ship launching

Ceremonial ship launching is the process of transferring a vessel to the water.

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Control rod

Control rods are used in nuclear reactors to control the fission rate of uranium and plutonium.

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Diesel–electric transmission

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.

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Gale

A gale is a strong wind, typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts.

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Galley (kitchen)

The galley is the compartment of a ship, train, or aircraft where food is cooked and prepared.

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Gasket

gasket A gasket is a mechanical seal which fills the space between two or more mating surfaces, generally to prevent leakage from or into the joined objects while under compression.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.

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Herbert Gantschacher

Herbert Gantschacher (born December 2, 1956, at Waiern in Feldkirchen in Kärnten, Carinthia, Austria) is an Austrian director and producer and writer.

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.

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Hotel-class submarine

The Hotel class is the general NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1959.

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Hydraulic fluid

A hydraulic fluid or hydraulic liquid is the medium by which power is transferred in hydraulic machinery.

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Jury rigging

Jury rigging is both a noun and a verb describing makeshift repairs made with only the tools and materials at hand.

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K-19: The Widowmaker

K-19: The Widowmaker is a 2002 historical thriller film about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine ''K-19''.

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Kara Sea

The Kara Sea (Ка́рское мо́ре, Karskoye more) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.

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Keel

On boats and ships, the keel is either of two parts: a structural element that sometimes resembles a fin and protrudes below a boat along the central line, or a hydrodynamic element.

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Keel laying

Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction.

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Liam Neeson

Liam John Neeson, OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.

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List of NATO reporting names for submarines

This is a list of NATO reporting names for submarines, with Russian and Soviet Navy designations.

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Medium-range ballistic missile

A medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) is a type of ballistic missile with medium range, this last classification depending on the standards of certain organizations.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

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Murmansk

Murmansk (p; Мурман ланнҍ; Murmánska; Muurman) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.

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Mutiny

Mutiny is a criminal conspiracy among a group of people (typically members of the military or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change, or overthrow a lawful authority to which they are subject.

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Naval ensign

A naval ensign is an ensign used by naval ships of various countries to denote their nationality.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev

Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev (Николай Владимирович Затеев) (c. June 30, 1926 – 28 August 1998) was a Russian submariner and a Captain First Rank in the Soviet Navy, notable as the commander of the ill-fated Soviet submarine K-19 in July 1961 during the Hotel class submarine's nuclear-reactor coolant leak.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Norwegian Nobel Committee

The Norwegian Nobel Committee (Den norske Nobelkomité) selects the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize each year on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, based on instructions of Nobel's will.

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Nuclear fission product

Nuclear fission products are the atomic fragments left after a large atomic nucleus undergoes nuclear fission.

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Nuclear meltdown

A nuclear meltdown (core melt accident or partial core melt) is a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Nuclear submarine

A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor.

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Pravda

Pravda (a, "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.

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President of the Soviet Union

The President of the Soviet Union (Президент Советского Союза, Prezident Sovetskogo Soyuza), officially called President of the USSR (Президент СССР) or President of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (Президент Союза Советских Социалистических Республик), was the head of state of the Soviet Union from 15 March 1990 to 25 December 1991.

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Propeller

A propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust.

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R-13 (missile)

The R-13 was a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) developed by the Soviet Union starting around 1955.

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R-21 (missile)

The R-21 (Р-21; NATO: SS-N-5 'Sark/Serb'; GRAU: 4K55) was a submarine-launched ballistic missile in service with the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1989.

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Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Roentgen (unit)

The roentgen or röntgen (symbol R) is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays.

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Roentgen equivalent man

The roentgen equivalent man (or rem) is an older, CGS unit of equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose which are measures of the health effect of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.

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Russian Shipyard Number 10

Russian Shipyard No.

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Scram

A scram or SCRAM is an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.

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Sea trial

A sea trial is the testing phase of a watercraft (including boats, ships, and submarines).

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Seaman

Seaman is a naval rank and is either the lowest or one of the lowest ranks in most navies around the world.

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Severodvinsk

Severodvinsk (p) is a city in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located in the delta of the Northern Dvina River, west of Arkhangelsk, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Ship breaking

Ship breaking or ship demolition is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

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Ship commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service, and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

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Short-range ballistic missile

A short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of about or less.

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Sievert

The sievert (symbol: SvNot be confused with the sverdrup or the svedberg, two non-SI units that sometimes use the same symbol.) is a derived unit of ionizing radiation dose in the International System of Units (SI) and is a measure of the health effect of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.

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Snezhnogorsk, Murmansk Oblast

Snezhnogorsk (Снежного́рск) is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

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Sonar

Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy (Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR) was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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Soviet submarine K-19

K-19 was one of the first two Soviet submarines of the Project 658 class (NATO reporting name), the first generation nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 SLBM.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Starshina

Starshina (a) is a senior non-commissioned rank or designation in the military forces of some Slavic states.

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Submarine

A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Submarine-launched ballistic missile

A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vasily Aksyonov

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (p; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist.

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Vladimir Romanov

"Vladimir Romanov" is also an alias used by Luka Magnotta. Vladimir Nikolayevich Romanov (p, Vladimiras Romanovas; born 1947 in Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR), Scotland on Sunday, 23 December 2007 is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country's independence from the Soviet Union.

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VM reactor

The various types of the VM reactor series are nuclear pressurized water reactors (PWR).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-19

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